[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that a Vancouver nerd bar is opening up shop in Toronto.


• Dangerous Minds provides its readers with a take on an upcoming Tom of Finland biopic.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that Enceladus seems altogether too hot and notes that dwarf planet Makemake seems to have a surprisingly uniform surface.


• Far Outliers looks at Afghanistan and Poland at the end of the 1970s.

Joe. My. God. and Towleroad each respond to the untimely death of George Michael.

• Language Log explores the evolution of the term "dongle".


• Marginal Revolution wonders if Donald Trump is guided by his thinking in the 1980s about a Soviet-American condominium.


• Torontoist looks at the Toronto's century house plaques come to be.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian media outside of Russia are gaining in influence and talks about modern Russia as a new sort of "evil empire".